Katharine Murphy

Great to see this initiative! The Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 includes The Burnout Booklet, created for @readingbodies.bsky.social with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social.

AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.

AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.

#SaveNottinghamLanguages

Join us for the webinar: What languages can do for you: Opportunities across the globe. Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez will discuss how the study of #languahes and global cultures can help you stand out in the job market! Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...

#employability

Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …

@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
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My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.

Thanks for this fascinating contribution to our Reading Bodies takeover this week, @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social! 🩺👇

Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice In Part 2 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Olivia Glaze considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.

In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
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Enjoyed presenting my AHRC Reading Bodies project at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Celebration last week at University of Exeter. In conversation here with historian Dr Ljubica Spaskovska on Medical Humanities research intersections. Poster by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social 🩺

Thanks to Jordan McCullough for editing this week's Reading Bodies takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social!

Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages  - HEPI This guest blog was kindly authored by Dr Charlotte Ryland, Director of the Translation Exchange.  ‘Languages are not just a skillset, they’re a mindset.’  I still remember where I was when a teacher ...

Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages

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Pleased to have established the new *Global Cultures of Health and Illness* research centre at QUB.

Watch this space for future plans and do get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.

Thank you @profstevenwilson.bsky.social for your fantastic contribution!

Cover image for the Journal of Romance Studies, Volume 25, Number 3, Autumn 2025. The left side shows the journal cover with a decorative tile motif. On the right, text reads: Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond), edited by Katharine Murphy and Olivia Glaze. Logos of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and Liverpool University Press are also displayed, with a green banner at the bottom reading “Special Issue.”

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+).
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
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Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Language scholars produce illustrated health booklet on burnout An illustrated booklet designed to help people talk about burnout and related feelings of stress and fatigue has been published by modern language scholars. The Burnout Booklet: A Health Resource for ...

Delighted to share a news story about our Reading Bodies health resource, The Burnout Booklet, created with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social and illustrated by Hannah Mumby.
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An inspiring 3-day conference about Medical Humanities across languages and cultures! Very much enjoyed presenting my reflections on Reading Bodies at a panel on 'Medical Humanities and the Creative Arts', with a creative writing taster session by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social.
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*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:

Thank you so much to everyone who attended this event last week, and in particular Sarah Moss, @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @laurasalisbury.bsky.social. If you couldn’t attend - fear not! - you can find a recording of the conversation on our website: readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/2025/05/16/w...

Convergencias literarias: género, narrativa y fandom en la literatura española contemporánea | Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature

The Centre for the Study of Women´s Writing will host this fantastic New Seminar Series on Female-authored science fiction in Spain. Book now.

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Looking forward to this tomorrow (4-5pm UK time)!

Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...

A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
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NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...

A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

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Join us for the final public event of the Reading Bodies project, where @katharinemurphy.bsky.social will be in conversation online with bestselling author Sarah Moss, discussing all things writing, health and the body. Our Q&A will be chaired by @laurasalisbury.bsky.social 📣💬 shorturl.at/eSnpY

With academics in Languages, Literatures and Medical Humanities, profstevenwilson.bsky.social, nicolasfmedina.bsky.social, garethjwood.bsky.social; laurasalisbury.bsky.social and others.